Improved water-wheel



te taba sas genital 5 VINCENT M. vlBAKER, oE PRESTON, MINNESOTA.

Y Letters Patent No. 84,158, dated November 17, 1868.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may conce/m 'Be it known that I, VINCENT M. BAKER, of Preston, in the county of Fillmore, and State `of Minnesota, have invented a new and improved Vater-W'heel and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,whioh will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specitication.

This invention relates to a new and improved horizontal water-wheel, and of that class in which power is obtained both from the percussive and reacting force of the water.

The invention consists in anovol construction of gates and chutes, and in a peculiar form of bucket, whereby several advantages are obtained, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure 1 is a horizontal section of my invention, taken in the line x x, fig. 3.

Figure 2 is a detached side view of a bucket.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section of a portion of the wheel, taken in the line y y, Iig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A represents the upper, and B the lower rirn of the wheel, between which the upper parts, a, a', of the buckets O are secured.

The part c is shorter than the part of, and a. has a concave face-side, as shown in iig. 1, while a has a combined concave and convex face-side, and is about twice the length of c, a requisite space being allowed between t u'.

The lower part, l), of the buckets extends down in curved form,.as shown clearly in fig. 2, b being equal in width to the longest part, ai', ofthe bucket.

vThe-water first acts against the parts a a? of the buckets by impact, and then descends upon the lower parts, b, and exerts a reactive force against b, as it leaves the wheel.

By this arrangement, it is believed that a large percentage of the power of the water is obtained. The water is directed upon the wheel as follows:

Two rims, c c, encompass the wheel, between which partition-plates, d, are secured, said plates having a tangential position relatively with the wheel, as shown clearly in iig. 1.

Between the plates d, there are placed gates D, com posed each of two plates, e j, arrangedin V-form, the angle formed by the junction ofthe plates being next the wheel, as shownin iig. 1.

The plates E are considerably longer than the plates f, and the former are parallel with the plates d, which are directly behind c, while thel plates f are parallel with the plates d, which are infront of them.

These gates D are all connected, by rods g, with a rim, h, which is concentric with the top rirn of the wheel, and works in a recess, t', therein, as shown clearly `in 3. The rods y pass through oblong slots, j, in

the top rim, c, of the wheel, and, by turning the lrim h, the gates DV may be opened and closed wholly or in .pa-rt, as desired, and when opened, either wholly or partially, the gates D perform the function of chutes, to direct the water properly against the buckets. This will be fully understood by referring to g. 1.

This wheel may be constructed at a Vmoderate cost, and it has no parts liable to get out of repair, vor becorne deranged by use. It is enclosed within a suitable case, as usual.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secu-re by Letters Patent- 1. The buckets C, composed of the three parts a. a b, constructed and arranged as described, to be acted upon by the water as herein set forth.

2. The gates D, composed each of y two plates, e f, arranged as shown, and connected to the rim It by rods g, in combination with the tangential plates d, between the rims A B, all being constructed, arranged, and made to operate substantially in the manner as and for the.

purpose set forth.

VINCENT M. BAKER., Witnesses:

REUBEN WELLS, C. H. CONKEY. 

